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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An eruptive vent whence gases (usually hydrocarbons), brines, mud, and, less often, boulders are blown out, building small cones which resemble normal volcanoes. Such vents have no apparent connection with true volcanoes but are due to the generation of gas in the depths.

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